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 306 TREATY WITH THE POTTAWATIMIES. 1827. One tract at Mang ach qua village, on the river Peble, of six miles square. One tract at Mickesawbe, of six miles square. One tract at the village of Prairie Ronde, of three miles square. One tract at the village of Match e be nash she wish, at the head of the Kekalamazoo river, of three miles square, which tracts contain in the whole ninety nine sections and one half section of land. And in consideration of the preceding cession, there shall be reserved for the use of the said tribe, to be held upon the same terms on which Indian reservations are usually held, the following tracts of land. Sections numbered tive, six, seven and eight, in the fifth township, south of the base line, and in the ninth range west of the principal meridian in the Territory of Michigan. The whole of the fifth township, south, in the tenth range, west, not already included in the Nottawa Sape reservation. Sections numbered one, two, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, thirty tive, and thirty six, in the fifth township, south, and eleventh range, west. The whole of the fourth township, south, in the ninth range, west. Sections numbered eight, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty nine, thirty, thirty one and thirty two, in the fourth township, south, and ninth range, west. Sections numbered one, two, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, thirty five and thirty six, in the fourth township, south, and eleventh range, west. Which tracts of land will form a continuous reservation, and contain ninety nine sections. Treaty binding After this treaty shall be ratiiied by the President and Senate, the when r¤¢ifi¢d· same shall be obligatory on the United States and the said tribe of Indians. In testimony whereof, Lewis Cass, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Chiefs and Warriors of the said tribe, have hereunto set their hands at St. Joseph, in the Territory of Michigan, this nineteenth day of September, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. LEWIS CASS. Mixs-a-bee, N e-kee-quin-nish-ka, Shee-ko-maig, or marsh fish, Wa·kai-she·maus, Pee·nai-sheish, or little bird, Peerish Morain, Kee-o-suck-o-wah, Mee-she-pe-she-wa—nan, Mais-ko-see, O-tuck—quen, A-bee·ta-que-zic, or half day, Que-quan, Ko-jai-waince, Wai-sai-gnu, Sa-kee-maus, O-kee-yau, Mitch-e—pe·nain-she-wish, or had bird, Me~shai-wais. Ma-tsai-bat·to, In presence of John L. Leib. R. A. Forsyth. Benj. B. Kercheval. Isaac McCoy. G. W. Silliman. James J. Godfrey. Joseph Bertrand. T. T. Smith. To the Indian names are rubjoined marks.